5 things to know today: Ex-Manson follower recommended for parole

The decision to parole 66-year-old ex-Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who helped kill Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary, is set to undergo administrative review by a parole board. Van Houten is the first Manson follower to make it this far in the parole process, the Associated Press reports.

Intended to encourage walking, biking and public transportation, possible real estate project The Avenue would be a 30-story luxury apartment tower on Congress Avenue and Austin’s first complex without any space for cars, the American-Statesman’s Shonda Novak reports.

During last night’s Democratic debate candidate Bernie Sanders criticized rival Hillary Clinton’s use of the word “superpredator” 20 years ago because, ” It was a racist term, and everybody knew it was a racist term,” Vox reports. The term is thought to characterize young, black Americans as violent or prone to criminal activity.